25/10/2011 Roots, tubers, plantains and bananas i… Home "" """"> ar .cn .de .en .es .fr .id .it .ph .po .ru .sw Roots, tubers, plantains and bananas in human nutrition FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 1990 Copyright Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is hereby granted without fee and without a formal request provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page. Copyright for components of this work owned by others than FAO must be honoured. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or fee. Request permission to publish from: The Chief Editor, file:///D:/temp/04/meister1015.htm 1/145 25/10/2011 Roots, tubers, plantains and bananas i… FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy, e-mail:
[email protected] Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Introduction 2. Origins and distribution 3. Production and consumption Production Consumption 4. Nutritive value file:///D:/temp/04/meister1015.htm 2/145 25/10/2011 Roots, tubers, plantains and bananas i… Nutritional composition of roots and tubers Carbohydrates Protein Lipids Vitamins Minerals Root crop leaves 5. Methods of cooking and processing Cassava Cooking and processing of yam Cocoyam Banana and plantain Sweet potato Potato 6. Effect of processing on nutritional value 7. Toxic substances and antinutritional factors Cassava toxicity Sweet potato file:///D:/temp/04/meister1015.htm 3/145 25/10/2011 Roots, tubers, plantains and bananas i… Potato Cocoyam Banana and plantain Yam Phytate 8.